Alabeth had married the notorious rake Robert Manvers, but her beloved husband had died in a duel encouraged by his supposed friend, Sir Piers Castleton. Returning to London to guard her sister Jillian from romantic temptations, she cannot prevent her from falling in love with the heartless Piers Castleton himself. Then, surprisingly, she meets the very mirror image of her late husband in Count Adam Zaleski, the lover that every high-born lady in London vies for. Clearly Alabeth must battle the man she hated to save her sister - and suppress the memory of the man she loved to save herself.